Why we cannot live without narratives : the emergence, development and ending of narratives in multimedia conditions

在《为什么我们不能没有叙事：多媒体环境下叙事的产生、发展和终结》的主题下，我们在三年的时间里举办了各种讲座和研究会议(21次)，一次国际研讨会，两次实地调查，六次小组讨论。我们的研究分为两条线，一条是关于理论问题的，一条是关于案例研究的。所研究的理论问题包括叙事的定义(S)、叙事存在的必要条件、叙事的本体论等。我们不是狭隘地、狭隘地对待叙事，而是试图在更广泛的多媒体和跨学科的语境中澄清它们的本质。我们的案例研究包括许多跨文化和跨学科的问题，但如果粗略分类，它们包括四项关于文学的研究，五项关于媒体的研究，三项关于电影的研究，两项关于美术的研究，两项关于文化机构的研究，一项关于消费主义的研究，一项关于戏剧的研究，一项关于经济学的研究，一项关于心理学的研究。在每一项研究中，我们都观察到了大(嗨)故事和小故事之间的激烈斗争，近年来，许多小(嗨)故事共同发挥了巨大的作用，但也有不少大(嗨)故事仍然存在并即将再次产生影响。我们的研究包括理论研究和案例研究，非常有效地阐明了叙事的复杂功能，并为叙事的跨文化和多媒体方面提供了新的启发式观点。

Under the theme of "Why we cannot live without narratives : the emergence, development and ending of narratives in multimedia conditions," we held during three years various lectures and research meetings (21 times), one international symposium, two field surveys, six panel discussions. Our research was divided into two lines, one about theoretical problems, the other about case studies. The theoretical problems researched includes the definition(s) of narratives, the conditions necessary for the existence of narratives, the ontology of narratives etc. We didn't treat narratives in a narrow and strict sense, but tried to clarify their nature in a broader multimedia and transdisciplinary context. Our case studies include many crosscultural and transdisciplinary issues, but if roughly classified, they include four researches on literature, five on media, three on movies, two on fine arts, two on cultural institutions, one on consumerism, one on theater, one on economics, one on psychology. In each studies, we observed radical struggle between grand (hi)stories and small stories, and in recent years a great many small (hi)stories play great roles collectively, though not a few grand (hi)stories still survives and are about to be influential again. Our research, consisted of both theoretical and case studies, was very effective in making clear the complicated functions of narratives, and offer new and heuristic viewpoints about the crosscultural and multimedia aspects of them.